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• Jason Kottke

Watching an Art Conservator Restore a Damaged Painting

There’s something so relaxing about watching art conservator Julian Baumgartner restore this damaged painting, a self-portrait by Italian painter Emma Gaggiotti Richards. I love how he paints tiny cracks in the damaged areas to match those in the rest of the painting.

There are many more videos and photos of Baumgartner’s restoration process on Instagram and YouTube. (via the kid should see this)

[This is a vintage post originally from Aug 2018.]

Tags: art · Julian Baumgartner · meditative · timeless posts · video

WIRED
• John Brandon

Leica Cine Play 1 Review: Pricey but Worth Every Penny

Leica's first home entertainment projector is pricey, but like the company's cameras, the image quality is worth the splurge.

xkcd.com

Particle Census

Remember, your answers to the physics census are confidential; we will not be issuing Pauli exclusion principle citations.

404 Media Supports Webmention
• Joseph Cox

The FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers

The FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers

Only a couple vendors could likely fulfill what the FBI is after, namely Flock and Motorola.

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Paul Sawers

GitHub will start paying some bug bounty hunters in swag instead of cash

Illustration of a robotic hand pressing an “AI” key on a stylized keyboard featuring copy-and-paste shortcuts, depicting AI-generated submissions.

Bug bounties have served as one of cybersecurity’s core pressure valves for decades, giving independent researchers a structured way to

The post GitHub will start paying some bug bounty hunters in swag instead of cash appeared first on The New Stack.

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

AI security readiness is now the No. 1 obstacle to adoption, Linux Foundation finds

A stylized illustration shows a hand emerging from a blue ribbed sweater sleeve, gently cupping or shielding a smaller hand that is operating a computer mouse. The protective hand is depicted in deep blue tones, while the smaller hand using the mouse has a warm reddish-brown skin tone with light pink fingernails. The mouse is connected by a blue cable that trails off to the left. The background is a dark navy blue, decorated with scattered geometric constellation patterns made of thin lines and small colorful dots in yellow, green, teal, purple, and blue, suggesting a network or digital connectivity theme.

Security readiness has emerged as the single biggest obstacle to AI adoption and innovation, according to a new Linux Foundation

The post AI security readiness is now the No. 1 obstacle to adoption, Linux Foundation finds appeared first on The New Stack.

kottke.org Valid
• Jason Kottke

Marbles Squared is a puzzle game 30 years in the...

Marbles Squared is a puzzle game 30 years in the making that you can play on the web, Game Boy, ZX Spectrum Next, and Palm Pilot.

kottke.org Valid
• Jason Kottke

Ben Prunty has composed the soundtrack to a new game,...

Ben Prunty has composed the soundtrack to a new game, Subnautica 2. Prunty did the FTL: Faster Than Light soundtrack back in the day, which I love.

Defector
• Patrick Redford

Donald Trump Is Stealing Your Money

Donald Trump Is Stealing Your Money
There are many ways that Donald Trump is currently making your life worse, not to mention generally waging war on the concept of "the future": accelerating the death of the biosphere, doing his best to eliminate the federal government and university as sites of middle-class ...

Fresh Air

Son of radicals, Zayd Ayers Dohrn grew up underground & on the run

"From my very first memories, I knew that the FBI was chasing us," Zayd Ayers Dohrn says. "My parents tried to explain it in terms [like] we were like Robin Hood or we were like the Rebel Alliance in Star Wars. So I knew in the way a kid knows that our lives were precarious."...

Manton Reece Supports Webmention Valid

After all the drama, the jury decides that Elon Musk loses the OpenAI case because of the statute of limitations. Not quite as satisfying as a clear yes or no on merits, but I think it would’ve been the same.

From the judge: “There is a substantial amount of evidence to support the jury’s finding.”

Defector
• Kathryn Xu

Who Will Beat Jannik Sinner?

Who Will Beat Jannik Sinner?
For tennis fans who do not know how to be normal (i.e. me), rooting for Jannik Sinner is as comforting as it can get. There is an aspirational calmness in Sinner's rituals—not elaborate enough to be Nadal-like, but consistent enough to be a little Nadal-lite—that, though it ...

Daring Fireball Valid
• John Gruber

Jury Rejects Elon Musk’s Claim Against Sam Altman in Unanimous Verdict

nytimes.com/live/2026/05/18/technology/openai-trial-verdict-altman-musk?unlocked_article_code=1.jVA.Cc2V.IwYuu2r4SJfQ

Cade Metz and Mike Isaac, reporting for The New York Times (gift link): A nine-person jury found that Elon Musk did not bring his lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman until after the expiration of the three-year statute of limitations. Mr. Musk filed his suit against t...

WIRED
• Paresh Dave, Maxwell Zeff

Elon Musk Loses Landmark Lawsuit Against OpenAI

The nine-member panel took only two hours to return a verdict in favor of OpenAI on Monday, which the judge quickly adopted as her own final decision.

Daring Fireball Valid
• John Gruber

‘John Appleseed’

om.co/2026/04/20/john-appleseed/

Here’s a great take from last month re: the Cook/Ternus transition, from Om Malik: When he took over from Steve Jobs in August 2011, Apple’s market capitalization was around $350 billion. As of this morning, it sits near $4 trillion. That is more than a 1,000 percent inc...

Daring Fireball Valid
• John Gruber

Define ‘Boom’ Please

nytimes.com/2026/04/21/business/how-apple-became-a-4-trillion-company-under-tim-cook.html?unlocked_article_code=1.jVA.MV8m.0JfUOJOME5WH

While I’m linking to pieces on Apple’s CEO transition, here’s an annoying tidbit from Tripp Mickle and Karl Russell’s piece for The New York Times, under the headline “Tim Cook Was Very, Very Good at Making Money” (gift link): Even though it has largely missed out on the...

kottke.org Valid
• Jason Kottke

Perhaps businesses are collecting too much data for...

Perhaps businesses are collecting too much data for their own good. “Each morning at 10am, I get an email from Caroline in the finance team showing the cash we have in the bank compared with the same day last year. This fact offers no hiding place.”

Scripting News Valid

The Mind of Claude

I have taught Claude Code to write software the way I do. It has abilities that I don't, for example, I give them 1000 lines of code, highly factored, with lots of thought into making it readable and maintainable, and always falling short (our languages today fight against r...

Daring Fireball Valid
• John Gruber

Ted Turner’s Small Apartment Above the Former CNN Center

youtube.com/watch?v=OUIVs58oyPI

Simultaneously audacious and humble, a combination that epitomizes Ted Turner’s entire life. (Shades, too, of Walt Disney’s apartment above the fire department at Disneyland.)

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Daring Fireball Valid
• John Gruber

Existing Stakeholders Have a Say in the Future

daringfireball.net/2026/05/ai_is_technology_not_a_product

A follow-up point on my “AI Is Technology, Not a Product” column over the weekend. Here’s a repeat of Steven Levy’s argument that John Ternus must direct Apple towards building “a killer AI product”: By the end of this decade, it’s unlikely that people will swipe on thei...